[Maple Leaf]

Good riddance to Colorado. Maybe I'm naive but is losing out on a few million a year going to cause the remaining Pac schools to no longer field competitive football teams? What is the mechanism for the Power 5 to cut down to 48 teams let alone for bad teams in good conferences to get kicked out? Is a few million more a year from a media rights deal going to make Northwestern a better team routinely than Oregon?

The number of high school kids good enough for D1 is not going down. The value differential in rights deals is probably as extreme as it will get; the deals the Big 10 and SEC get in subsequent negotiations are not going to be getting better than what they have now.

  You have made a very good point in the value of subsequent negotiations.  The media landscape and they ability to generate $$$ is anything but a given.  

[Maple Leaf]

Good riddance to Colorado. Maybe I'm naive but is losing out on a few million a year going to cause the remaining Pac schools to no longer field competitive football teams? What is the mechanism for the Power 5 to cut down to 48 teams let alone for bad teams in good conferences to get kicked out? Is a few million more a year from a media rights deal going to make Northwestern a better team routinely than Oregon?

The number of high school kids good enough for D1 is not going down. The value differential in rights deals is probably as extreme as it will get; the deals the Big 10 and SEC get in subsequent negotiations are not going to be getting better than what they have now.

  You have made a very good point in the value of subsequent negotiations.  The media landscape and they ability to generate $$$ is anything but a given.